How to win the jungle race as Brand against Taliyah · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Brand's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Taliyah.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Brand Favoured | The Sear into Conflagration point-click burst wins the level-1 stat check, but Threaded Volley on worked ground still chunks melee contests. You still win the straight exchange at the first buff; keep it short, keep it decisive, and keep the scuttle line yours. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Brand Favoured | Ablaze combo poke chunks half a health bar through a wall. Taliyah can make it awkward — a W toss into a stunning boulder field bursts you at every choke point — but not with one camp still up on both sides. Trade, then walk away with the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Even Skirmish | Even at the opening scuttle, for a concrete reason — the W-into-Q burst combo plus E mine field wins fights at choke points, while the full E-Q stun rotation is your burst window before sustain kits stabilize. Don't chase her across worked ground — the mine slow turns retreats into kills, and let the camp timers choose the fight for you. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Brand Favoured — Take Duels | You hold the edge at 4-5, not a blowout. She uses 4-5 to shove waves and cross the map, with worked ground making her the faster rotator, so meet them where the camps are, not where their laners are. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Pyroclasm Favoured | Pyroclasm bounces win every 2v2 — drag skirmishes toward your laners. Weaver's Wall splits the map, so the margin is real but narrow: fight when your ultimate is up and Weaver's Wall is the one on cooldown. |
| First Item Spike | Liandry's Spike | Liandry's converts your Blaze uptime into percent-health melt that makes tanks regret existing. Your camp clear becomes one rotation per camp and your poke chunks become kill threats. Force Taliyah to contest pits where your full rotation reaches the whole team. Taliyah's first item makes the volley-into-shove combo a real burst instead of chip damage from range. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Brand Favoured at Full Build | You are the better full-build side, narrowly. She zones with mines and splits the map with the wall whenever she wants to, so take the duel with cooldowns up and never mid-rotation. |
Start the buff that chains into raptors — your E-W AoE wants the multi-camps early. Track Taliyah's start through leashes and path away from their level-3 power window; your burn needs two more levels to argue back. Taliyah clears very fast with Threaded Volley on worked ground and rotates faster than almost anyone off her passive.
Ranked by the race windows in Brand's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Brand vs Taliyah report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Brand's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows — Brand holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Brand's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows, so Taliyah is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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